Dataset builders
WARDBot is a bot operated by WEBSPARK that crawls pages into a dataset that may be reused or shared with third parties. WARDBot is an AI data scraper operated by WEBSPARK. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Request says
"WARDBot"
Checked against
Nothing published
Live check
No operator check exists for WARDBot. This still shows what the address really is.
Reference
| User agent | WARDBotToken only: match on the substring. |
|---|---|
| Operator | WEBSPARK |
| Purpose | Dataset builders |
| Respects robots.txt | No policy |
| Verification method | Claim onlyNone published, user agent only No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. |
| Crawl pattern | Not published |
| Robots.txt tokens | WARDBot |
| Operator documentation | None published |
WARDBot is an AI data scraper operated by WEBSPARK. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.
robots.txt
Paste one at the root of your domain. Rules are per token.
User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /User-agent: WARDBot
Allow: /User-agent: WARDBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /searchEdit the Disallow paths to match your own URLs.
Blocking WARDBot keeps your pages out of the datasets it builds from future crawls. It does not remove anything collected earlier, and how each operator uses or shares its data varies, so check their policy.
Build a file for every crawlerFAQ
WARDBot is a bot operated by WEBSPARK that crawls pages into a dataset that may be reused or shared with third parties. WARDBot is an AI data scraper operated by WEBSPARK. No IP range list or reverse-DNS convention is published, so a request carrying this user agent cannot be proven genuine and a robots.txt rule alone will not stop a forgery.
Not documented. No operator statement says whether WARDBot reads robots.txt, so add the rule but verify in your logs that the requests actually stop.
You cannot, at least not from the request itself. No IP range file and no reverse-DNS convention have been published for this agent. The user-agent string is the only signal, and any client can send it, so treat a match as a claim rather than proof. Compare the source IP against hosting and datacenter ranges instead, and rate limit anything that behaves like a crawler.
Add the WARDBot token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.
Blocking WARDBot keeps your pages out of the datasets it builds from future crawls. It does not remove anything collected earlier, and how each operator uses or shares its data varies, so check their policy.